Senior IAM Engineer (all genders)

Identity and Access Management (IAM) is a key technology at Zalando, providing secure access to our services and tools for tens of thousands of employees, partnering businesses, contractors, customer care agents, and logistics staff. As the scale and complexity of our identity landscape grows, so does the engineering challenge behind it.

As a Senior IAM Engineer you will work in this dynamic environment on the line between Software Engineering and Systems Engineering, together with a talented and diverse team, influencing, building, and operating the evolving IAM technology stack at Zalando. You will work across identity governance, access lifecycle automation, and platform integrations, making a direct impact on how Zalando manages and secures access at scale.

WHAT WE’D LOVE YOU TO DO (AND LOVE DOING)

• Own and evolve a modern, cloud-native IAM platform, keeping it reliable, secure, and ahead of the curve as the identity landscape and business needs change.
• Design, build, and maintain integrations between our IAM platform and business applications, using native connectors, SCIM interfaces or custom API integrations, owning the result end-to-end.
• Extend our infrastructure-as-code tooling and custom connector implementations, closing the gaps that SaaS vendors leave uncovered.
• Drive automated provisioning across the full Joiner-Mover-Leaver lifecycle, reducing manual steps and working toward fully automated coverage across all integrated systems.
• Build